FOR TUESDAY, PLEASE READ CH. 6, 7, AND 9 OF GREEN -- PLUS SPEAKER RYAN'S SPEECH

SIMULATION

Roles

Voting alignments in Congress  -- 

PIE: connect to what we discussed on February 16

POG:  group scorecards (see Brewer & Maisel, pp. 115-116)

Presidential leadership

• Larry O'Brien
• Nixon reflects on the 1972 election

"The greatest measure of the nineteenth century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America." -- Thaddeus Stevens said it in the Lincoln movie, though it is not clear that he said it in real life.